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in her time and important new book, "regulating to disaster: how green jobs are damaging america's economy." in it, she subjects the assumption and policies which led to such a faded federal investments as solyndra solar panel manufacture as was that a 123 collector car battery manufacture to a waiting analysis which we of the institute have come to expect from this oxford trained economist who served as chief of staff for the council of economic advisers. sorry. during the administration of president george w. bush. in her book, she helps us understand why the failures of such direct investments in private firms are both significant problems in themselves and cautionary tales for those who would have the government rather than private investors allocate capital. the publication that regulates the disaster caps diane mr. shear as an institute senior fellow, i'll year in which has been prolific and influential. cited by reuters reporters, talk show host, across the country. i think in particular of her many, many contributions to our series called issues 2012, ranging from her analysis demo
in her time and important new book, "regulating to disaster: how green jobs are damaging america's economy." in it, she subjects the assumption and policies which led to such a faded federal investments as solyndra solar panel manufacture as was that a 123 collector car battery manufacture to a waiting analysis which we of the institute have come to expect from this oxford trained economist who served as chief of staff for the council of economic advisers. sorry. during the...
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he also exploits what this could mean for the global economy. this is a little under an h
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that's because our economy is driven from the middle out and not from the top down. our economy is driven by middle-class families with good jobs and money in their pockets to spend. so our first goal must be to put americans back to work and to get our economy moving, to rebuild the real middle class now. now, the average american across our land tonight, today, they probably think that what we're about here is just that, to solve our country's most pressing problem -- creating new jobs, laying the foundation for future economic growth and, thus, reducing our deficits in the long term. but instead, we are here tired in knots to avert a manufactured fiscal cliff which could have been avoided six months ago by the house passing s. 3412 to avert the tax hikes on 98% of americans. now, i have said repeatedly that i will evaluate any such fiscal cliff legislation on how these proposed policies affect working families and the real middle class. again, the real middle class, those make $30,000, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 a year. so i'm disappointed to say that in my opinion
that's because our economy is driven from the middle out and not from the top down. our economy is driven by middle-class families with good jobs and money in their pockets to spend. so our first goal must be to put americans back to work and to get our economy moving, to rebuild the real middle class now. now, the average american across our land tonight, today, they probably think that what we're about here is just that, to solve our country's most pressing problem -- creating new jobs,...
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big investments later and all of us are in fact, are deeply in debt to the kids because the more our economy grows, teachers, professors grows, teachers, professors, entrepreneurs are the greatest natural resource in america is our children. long story short, a woman says this and i go at her and she comes at me and we say why don't we see what it is like to live on the snap program? i went to bet and i woke up and it was a big story. [laughter] i called my staff and said guess what i am doing? but it was a powerful thing because we're one of 14 cities in america that has a food policy director. i think all should. we have done a lot of work to expand affordable and healthy options. i said this is a great thing if we could not only raise apples of compassionate understanding to dispel the bad stereotypes' of the families on a snap and focus on the realities of that but the policy changes for a local level to address food insecurity and through desert and expand healthy options. i had a poignant moment where we think of our society as a whole. we had security guards in my office and talking w
big investments later and all of us are in fact, are deeply in debt to the kids because the more our economy grows, teachers, professors grows, teachers, professors, entrepreneurs are the greatest natural resource in america is our children. long story short, a woman says this and i go at her and she comes at me and we say why don't we see what it is like to live on the snap program? i went to bet and i woke up and it was a big story. [laughter] i called my staff and said guess what i am doing?...
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even as the national economy is rebuilding and rebounding, my state's economy has lagged behind the rest of the nation. and our economy cannot afford to have the tea party extremists in the house making it harder for small business owners to create jobs. but their shutdown has blocked small business loans and investments in wisconsin. and that threatens our made in wisconsin economy and tradition and our work ethic and our entrepreneurial spirit. due to this tea party shutdown, wisconsin small businesses are missing out on about $3.5 million in s.b.a. supported loans every day. that means wisconsin small businesses have been denied access to critical loans since this shutdown began. we know that the majority of new jobs in the united states are created by start-ups and small businesses are engines of our economy, creating two out of every three new jobs right now. so our economy needs to have a congress that is supporting and strengthening small business efforts, not a congress that steers from one manufactured crisis to another. in wisconsin, groundbreaking research supported by the nat
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however, i mostly just see her and it is an issue and i understand that especially now in this economy that people need to support their families. i'm wondering if you could speak more to this underrepresentation. i have spoken to some people about it. i plan to do more and other public interest side. i'm wondering if you have spoken to lobbyist that have represented corporations and those who have an interest in the public interest. >> you know, that is a really loaded question. >> i think that there are 15 or 20 questions in there. so i will -- my concern with the underrepresented is that they have fewer resources and they have fewer lobbyists. i think that is what you are coming to in your comments. when i wrote the book on lobbying and policy change, which is a more technical book on this, one of the findings out of this book includes interviewing people on all sides of the issue and following them over four years. asking people who are involved, lobbyists and members of government who are the most important interest groups on those issues. the interesting thing is that even though
however, i mostly just see her and it is an issue and i understand that especially now in this economy that people need to support their families. i'm wondering if you could speak more to this underrepresentation. i have spoken to some people about it. i plan to do more and other public interest side. i'm wondering if you have spoken to lobbyist that have represented corporations and those who have an interest in the public interest. >> you know, that is a really loaded question. >>...
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people still are in really serious economic dire straits and hopelessness without a way forward in this economy but it doesn't seem to translate into any desire for direct action and it seems like it's very easy that we have this feeling that we are in the midst of her recovery and that's enough. that has allowed something like occupy and also with a lot of other factors that have allowed it to lose strength and not turn into a more mass movement. >> well, i think one thing we have to think about is how we think of a movement. i am involved in the strike the debt campaign with occupy and we wanted to make an issue out of debt as we found we had popular assembly so we spent a lot of the summer thinking what issues will really take hold and will people respond to? we started off with popular assemblies and parks during the day before they kicked us out. if we had once on climate change and police brutality and stop and frisk and things like that and we had one on debt and the one on death was gigantic. it was by far the biggest and lots of people got very excited. everybody in the same situation
people still are in really serious economic dire straits and hopelessness without a way forward in this economy but it doesn't seem to translate into any desire for direct action and it seems like it's very easy that we have this feeling that we are in the midst of her recovery and that's enough. that has allowed something like occupy and also with a lot of other factors that have allowed it to lose strength and not turn into a more mass movement. >> well, i think one thing we have to...
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posted reagan california, this economy, frank, why would you want to do that? it involves heritage since the first day but did take over heritage instead of moving your family. i think linda was happy all photius the new yorker. totally missed the inside story. >> made the decision. >> and here we are. [applause] >> the funny thing was as you recounted in this book, anthony fisher's attorney was a very prominent new york attorney, 26 floor of the old pan am building and his name was william casey as n ronald reagan, the cia. i have gone up with anthony fisher and we were close to signing on the dotted line. five years later, six years later, our father and i go out to a supersecret office of the cia and ask about their heritage for our tenth anniversary, bill casey looked very spurned, and across the desk, all right, that far out of the field. so kind of an interesting thing. so in the spring of 1970 -- -- [laughter] >> why? what was there about working at the beginning to say it was outside, but basically not that well-known, a little on the periphery of event
posted reagan california, this economy, frank, why would you want to do that? it involves heritage since the first day but did take over heritage instead of moving your family. i think linda was happy all photius the new yorker. totally missed the inside story. >> made the decision. >> and here we are. [applause] >> the funny thing was as you recounted in this book, anthony fisher's attorney was a very prominent new york attorney, 26 floor of the old pan am building and his...
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true knowledge of the revolution that preceded the political rebellion that up ended the established economy of knowledge the leaders -- slated to be found in the declaration of independence seven like to conclude with the brief reading from the end of the first chapter of which i have called the age of franklin. >> bodies of knowledge played no direct role in a practical expression to the widespread idea and attitude that informed first the colonial rebellion in the creation of a new nation and a new society. when only lead to clear that the interest and experience of the attitudes of the declaration of independence in founding fathers to recognize just how a deeply such notions went to the heart of the american revolution and to in a letter to jefferson and summed up the prevailing sentiments of this generation'' we are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism old europe will have to lean on our shoulders and hobble along our side under the priest and king is as she can. with a final political break america was free to shake off the meddling of the kings to re
true knowledge of the revolution that preceded the political rebellion that up ended the established economy of knowledge the leaders -- slated to be found in the declaration of independence seven like to conclude with the brief reading from the end of the first chapter of which i have called the age of franklin. >> bodies of knowledge played no direct role in a practical expression to the widespread idea and attitude that informed first the colonial rebellion in the creation of a new...
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it would probably take them in hundred years in the hope that the economy to get to something is novel is an e-book and now they are doing it. i don't know how it will work. tomorrow in baltimore i am teaching a seminar built around a short book. i've taught it at other schools, chapel hill alma mater commuting from baltimore. this time it's different in two respects. it will be built to run shorter books with readings from the others, too. i have a seminar in front of me and people online from all over the country and even outside the country around the world, auditing this class in a test for whether or not we can use the same technology that will create an enhanced e-book, that use the technology to invite arch nemesis nancy tate part and send in questions and question each other and get to know each other using the web. so there are a lot of new items going on about how this is presented. i am struggling to catch up with myself. they've instructed me how to treat and twitter and facebook and all these other things, but a lot of things like the enhanced e-book i can't do because i d
it would probably take them in hundred years in the hope that the economy to get to something is novel is an e-book and now they are doing it. i don't know how it will work. tomorrow in baltimore i am teaching a seminar built around a short book. i've taught it at other schools, chapel hill alma mater commuting from baltimore. this time it's different in two respects. it will be built to run shorter books with readings from the others, too. i have a seminar in front of me and people online from...
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number two the american economy had ramped up to produce armaments for the war. i run a clean most of those armaments never got into the war. when we went into the war of april my teen 17 we use mostly european weapons. for example we started building airplanes and is not a single american warplane got into the war. our hand grenades and so forth we bought from the british. we had at that point but by 1918 was the largest armaments industry in the world. almost immediately after the armistice and the end of the war compound the government started canceling contracts. and when i say canceling i mean just like this. without warning, they pulled them. factories were left literally with production line still half-full. thousands of workers were let go without warning. a state like connecticut really felt this because it had so many of these kinds of plants. and, companies were left with buildings, factories that they had built to produce armaments. well they said you've got to do something for us. what are we going to do with these buildings with all the machinery an
number two the american economy had ramped up to produce armaments for the war. i run a clean most of those armaments never got into the war. when we went into the war of april my teen 17 we use mostly european weapons. for example we started building airplanes and is not a single american warplane got into the war. our hand grenades and so forth we bought from the british. we had at that point but by 1918 was the largest armaments industry in the world. almost immediately after the armistice...
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have presenter of taken on at that time the greatest trust in the history of american -- the american economy. she began her steady around 1900. the fifth article does not come out until 1902 which shows you how many years she put into doing the legwork that was necessary. but she had one case in the whole. she had her own version of deep throat. she had a man by the name of henry rodgers to work for john d. rockefeller who was willing to talk with her privately. she did a lot of very, very meticulous, scrupulous research. she had assistance, people who helped her. one of her assistance really did help for a great deal. together they accumulated a damning case against how the john d. rockefeller had achieved his, you know, accomplishments. this is one of the most important pieces of work that we have here. this is the first installation of the history of the standard oil company published by turbo, november 1902. this is the first installment of what became a 19-part series that ultimately resulted in these two books, and this is the addition that she gave to allegheny college, the most priva
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it is the ability to take what is being practiced in the rest of the economy and translate it into things that are important in policy in washington. and in this century, that's going to be an even more important part of assuring we have good governance in this country, because the volumes of information we're dealing with are horrendous, and people who have a practiced approach at being able to take those volumes of information and translate them into something meaningful in policy will be more important, not less important in the future. so that's the reason why what beth has done here is so important. it helps people understand in an academic sense what it is we do as opposed to the caricature of lobbyists that often dominates the possible discussion, and we have to preserve the in this town the ability of the people who are the policy advocates to be able to present rational points of view, own though they come from different sigh. the agenda of the aclu would not be things i would necessarily agree with on the political front. but it is that clash, then, of ideas that allows to us re
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mitt romney portrayed barack obama as a non competent president, not good at his job, not good on the economy or foreign policy, didn't know what he was doing. but he was a good family man, a good guy, somebody you want to go out to a beer with, mitt romney would say president obama is a good man. just not good at being president. if you look how the left campaign against mitt romney including people in the obama campaign met romney was a guy who put -- undersold women because he hated women, but you all back in jeans, the sort of guy who specifically fired employees that five years later their wives would die of cancer because he didn't have health insurance, mitt romney stashed his money in offshore bank accounts, a ghostly version of america the beautiful because he didn't like america. the polls showed this. the exit polling most americans agree with mitt romney on a lot of issues, there's one issue they disagree, when it can to the exit polling that said which candidate do you think cares more about people like you, romney got blown away a 80-20, including probably a certainly plurality
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and i understand that especially now in this economy that people need to make money to support their families, and lobbying pays a great amount. and so i'm wondering if you can speak more to this underrepresentation. i've considered lobbying, i've spoken to some people about it. they say i'm selling my soul. but i plan to do more of the public interest side. and so i'm wondering if you have spoken to lobbyists who represent corporations, but they also have an interest in serving the public interest. >> you know, that's a really loaded question so, beth, when you get through, i want a piece of of that answer. [laughter] >> well, i don't know, i think there are 15 or 20 questions in there, so i will -- my concern with the underrepresented is that they have fewer resources, and so they have fewer lobbyists. so i think that's what you're coming from. i will tell you that, very interestingly, when i wrote "lobbying and policy change" which is with my co-authors a more technical book, let's say, on this than this particular one, one of the findings out of that book, so we took a hundred ra
and i understand that especially now in this economy that people need to make money to support their families, and lobbying pays a great amount. and so i'm wondering if you can speak more to this underrepresentation. i've considered lobbying, i've spoken to some people about it. they say i'm selling my soul. but i plan to do more of the public interest side. and so i'm wondering if you have spoken to lobbyists who represent corporations, but they also have an interest in serving the public...
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it's a different capitalism because it's still part of the whole economy idea. the whole ideas with concept is one of taking care of the community, that everybody who is a member of the tribe and in the community or the reservation there making sure people that belong to this community have services, health, dental and educational opportunities. it's much like the state of verizon or any other state or even a corporation that you work for and they would have benefits for that. so indian gaming tribes were successful providing benefits to their people. there is always controversies surrounding indian gaming and really i think to raise that question another way there is suspected controversial -- controversy around any gaming. tribes are making money but there may kenya in a bad way. they're making it at the expense of people who can't afford to gamble but when you look at that you can say the same thing of las vegas or atlantic city or any other place that likes gambling so there's always there is always that type of controversy and there is always the -- of orga
it's a different capitalism because it's still part of the whole economy idea. the whole ideas with concept is one of taking care of the community, that everybody who is a member of the tribe and in the community or the reservation there making sure people that belong to this community have services, health, dental and educational opportunities. it's much like the state of verizon or any other state or even a corporation that you work for and they would have benefits for that. so indian gaming...
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california's economy was booming and it was one up -- he said why would you want to start a new one when you've been involved with heritage since the first day why don't you just take over heritage instead of moving your family to new york or the rest. so that's kind of how it evolved. i think linda was happy we didn't get to move although she is a native new yorker and would give me hell for telling the best insights three -- >> it's here instead of washington, d.c.. [applause] [laughter] >> the funny thing was, and you recounted this in the book, anthony fisher's attorney was a very prominent new york attorney in the old building and his name was william jay casey as and ronald reagan's head of the cia. i actually gone up and met them. we were pretty close to signing on the dotted line. come five or six years later, the president of heritage, the founder and i go out and call that bill casey in the super secret office of the cia and asked casey if he would make a major gift for the tenth anniversary. he looked very stern across the desk and said i gave heritage -- i let them have a dea
california's economy was booming and it was one up -- he said why would you want to start a new one when you've been involved with heritage since the first day why don't you just take over heritage instead of moving your family to new york or the rest. so that's kind of how it evolved. i think linda was happy we didn't get to move although she is a native new yorker and would give me hell for telling the best insights three -- >> it's here instead of washington, d.c.. [applause]...
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. >> what does the terms economy? >> it is really the mexican descendant, we have been here for so long. people think it is just an immigrant. constantly replenishing. several generations. we call ourselves to, partly connected indigenously. the people. they call them aztecs and took him back to something that in the 60's became vibrant, political, change. so is kind of like a decision to the sake of my live identity which also includes justice and a better country. >> solar you when you join the gain? >> i was 11 years old. i got involved in the most intense part of it. not everybody does. gains, neighborhood gangs. a lot of guys who were in it, around it. some guys get into a really heavy. get into heroin. i got into -- house in and out of jail, jamal. violent things including writing, including -- the return to give me for some murder the never -- attempted murder rose 17 taba was very fortunate. as of people that the, the way in november. i ended up leaving the drugs from leaving the gang life and not having to do
. >> what does the terms economy? >> it is really the mexican descendant, we have been here for so long. people think it is just an immigrant. constantly replenishing. several generations. we call ourselves to, partly connected indigenously. the people. they call them aztecs and took him back to something that in the 60's became vibrant, political, change. so is kind of like a decision to the sake of my live identity which also includes justice and a better country. >> solar...
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out about fdr's misbehavior and if we threw him out of office, and demanded his resignation, as the economy is recovering? all the way back to the french and indian war. a very young george washington was writing very romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. her name was sally fairfax. a very attractive, older, sophisticated neighbor. what if washington's letters had become public during the french and unanimous war or the revolutionary war? much as petraeus' e-mails became public? and what if we got rid of george washington? so bill clinton is not the first and not the worst. petraeus is not the first and not the worst. been there done that. there's a long history of it. in fact, it pains me to say that even abraham lincoln visited prostitutes. i know, say it isn't so but it happened. the details on it are sketch y, there's not a lot of letters written. but lincoln's best friend was joshua speed, and speed was perhaps as dashing and as handsome and as lucky with the ladies as lincoln was allegedly unlucky in romance. and speed felt sorry for lincoln, always calmed one anoth
out about fdr's misbehavior and if we threw him out of office, and demanded his resignation, as the economy is recovering? all the way back to the french and indian war. a very young george washington was writing very romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. her name was sally fairfax. a very attractive, older, sophisticated neighbor. what if washington's letters had become public during the french and unanimous war or the revolutionary war? much as petraeus' e-mails became...
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have surpassed all the other 11 nations because the test scores really were not a predictor of our economy our military supremacy are technological innovation. they were just test scores. i'm not saying that test scores don't matter but they don't predict anything. they don't predict the future. and in fact when people tell you about the terrible test scores they are talking about the test that was given in 2009 but they don't tell you about the even more recent international test in which our students tried with with -- in mathematics. black students in massachusetts got the same scores as the students in finland in fourth and eighth grade mathematics. of course it should have been that you didn't hear about that. the only student that wrote about it actually was -- there was a blog poll the daily howler by bob salafi and he writes about the media. he said look at these headlines. they say we are we are falling behind again. nonsense. we did just as well as all the other european countries where the tests cultures like singapore japan hong kong where there ministers of education are tryin
have surpassed all the other 11 nations because the test scores really were not a predictor of our economy our military supremacy are technological innovation. they were just test scores. i'm not saying that test scores don't matter but they don't predict anything. they don't predict the future. and in fact when people tell you about the terrible test scores they are talking about the test that was given in 2009 but they don't tell you about the even more recent international test in which our...
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i mean, the economy -- it was a very interesting summer from the point of view of the economy because the economy was booming, and america was just -- it was motoring along. i mean, it was overheating, if anything. and this was really a kind of a matter of some concern to some people, herbert hoover in particular who was the commerce secretary at the time, was worried it was overheating. he was right to be worried about it, because it was overheating. and the federal reserve, four central bankers -- federal reserve bank of new york and central bankers from britain, france and germany -- all met in a secret meeting on long eye hand no far from where -- long island not far from where lend berg had taken off. and they decided to cut the interest rates anywhere which is what lit the fire that really led to the stock market crash in the following year and then the great depression that followed after that. >> host: that's just a quick preview of bill bryson's upcoming book, "one summer: america, 1927." you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you
i mean, the economy -- it was a very interesting summer from the point of view of the economy because the economy was booming, and america was just -- it was motoring along. i mean, it was overheating, if anything. and this was really a kind of a matter of some concern to some people, herbert hoover in particular who was the commerce secretary at the time, was worried it was overheating. he was right to be worried about it, because it was overheating. and the federal reserve, four central...
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drove him there wouldn't have been that an economy kept going down. the republicans would've said it was his fault even though they . had hamstrung him. they got it both ways. they stop them, they blame him for the consequences. >> yes, sir. i want to thank you for coming here. >> thank you. >> and i want to thank you for your fairness over the years. thank you very much. >> thank you. long time? 20 years next year. i think writing the book would be -- to promote the book, that's the hardest part of it. k the hardest thing is to promote the book, get the book out there. next question is --and tt qu >> let's start about bookwriting. . >> let's talk afterwards about bookwriting. >> the tea party if it weren't for the present economy would have come back a long time ago. >> 's government shutdowns i know are hurting the economy. it's faith in our system underlies consumer confidence and i think it's undermined it lately. if you assume the government will pay its debts and you assume the government will operate confidently and reasonably and it hasn't bee
drove him there wouldn't have been that an economy kept going down. the republicans would've said it was his fault even though they . had hamstrung him. they got it both ways. they stop them, they blame him for the consequences. >> yes, sir. i want to thank you for coming here. >> thank you. >> and i want to thank you for your fairness over the years. thank you very much. >> thank you. long time? 20 years next year. i think writing the book would be -- to promote the...
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view did not grow the government or the economy at all, a white reporter self in that position? so the federal reserve has increased the balance sheet trading to a trillion dollars of funny money and ultimately the pain of that will fall on the middle-class and the very pork but it will defeat of both parties said they want yet we don't have the courage to day to make the tough tauruses even if we lose our seat to secure the future we put ourselves first visit of the country and the american citizen if they read the black-and-white there common-sense ways to save money. just this week the air force announced we will spend 64 to million dollars of 90 projects. the gao says the least half of that will be wasted. it will never get completed or do what it is supposed to do. back-to-back we had a program cancelled as. because it will never work. this is out inefficient government was they finally cancel that we spend another $100 million, they paid a settlement be to cancel a vaguely dollars the the person responsible did not get fired and not held accountable and the company that di
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found out about fdr's misbehavior one of which are fdr out of office and demanded his visit nation economy was recovering? on way back to the french and indian war. the young george washington was writing romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. name is sally fairfax, an attractive, older sophisticated neighbor. what if washington's letters have become public during the french and indian war for the revolutionary war, much as petraeus is enough to team public and what we got rid george washington? bill clinton is not the first and the worst. and there, done that, a long history of it. it pains me to say even abraham lincoln visited a. say it isn't so, but it happened. the details on matters itchy. there's not a lot of letters written about this, but lincoln's best friend was joshua speed and speed was perhaps as dashing and from unlucky with the ladies as lincoln was homely and awkward unlucky in romance. they always called one another by their last names. speed, lincoln. speed and that is linking his door and didn't have a place to stay, so what can let speed stay upstairs
found out about fdr's misbehavior one of which are fdr out of office and demanded his visit nation economy was recovering? on way back to the french and indian war. the young george washington was writing romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. name is sally fairfax, an attractive, older sophisticated neighbor. what if washington's letters have become public during the french and indian war for the revolutionary war, much as petraeus is enough to team public and what we got rid...
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preserved to have taken on at that time the greatest trust in the history of america and the american economy. she began her study around 1900. the first article does not come out until 1902 tells you how many years she put into doing the legwork that was necessary. but she had one ace in the hall and not what she had her on the version i guess you could say a deep throat. she had a man by the name of henry roger, who worked for john d. rockefeller, who is willing to talk with her privately. she did a lot of very, very meticulous, scrupulous research. she had assistants, people who helped her. job title of cleveland was one of her assistants he really did help her great deal, together accumulated a really damning case against how john d. rockefeller had achieved to his accomplishments. this is one of the most important pieces of work we have here. this is the first installation of the history of the standard oil company published by ida tarbell and mcclure's magazine november 1902. this is the first installment of what became and 18 part series that ultimately resulted in these two books. thi
preserved to have taken on at that time the greatest trust in the history of america and the american economy. she began her study around 1900. the first article does not come out until 1902 tells you how many years she put into doing the legwork that was necessary. but she had one ace in the hall and not what she had her on the version i guess you could say a deep throat. she had a man by the name of henry roger, who worked for john d. rockefeller, who is willing to talk with her privately....
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in really serious economic dire straits, complete hopelessness without really a way forward in this economy, but it doesn't ubt seem to translate into any desire for direct action. it seems like it's very easy that we have this feeling that we're in the midst of a recovery, and that's enough. and that really has allowed something like occupy to sort of, i mean, also with a lot of other factors like repression, but allowed it to sort of lose strength and not turn into a more mass movement. >> well, i think one thing we have to think about is how we think of a movement. i'm involved in the strike debt campaign with occupy, and we wanted to make an issue out of debt because we found be when we have popular assemblies, we spent a lot of the summer having, okay, what issue is really going to take hold, what do people really respond to. it was all strategizing. so we started off with this series of popular assemblies in parks during the day before they could kick us out, about -- we had one on climate change, we had one on police brutality, stop and frisk, things like that we had one on debt, and
in really serious economic dire straits, complete hopelessness without really a way forward in this economy, but it doesn't ubt seem to translate into any desire for direct action. it seems like it's very easy that we have this feeling that we're in the midst of a recovery, and that's enough. and that really has allowed something like occupy to sort of, i mean, also with a lot of other factors like repression, but allowed it to sort of lose strength and not turn into a more mass movement....
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in recent years the department has responded to a financial crisis that left our economy severely crippled. he contend with budgetary difficulties including sequestration an aside innovative ways to accomplish more with less. we witnessed our nation's most severe environmental catastrophe, the deepwater horizon disaster and have taken action to hold accountable those who are responsible. we also mourn the loss of innocent lives. we struggle to understand and respond unspeakable acts of violence including the terrorist attacks just two weeks ago on behalf of all who were killed or suffered industries on such violence and we've paid tribute to far too many law enforcement who in the line of duty and in service to their country has made the ultimate sacrifice. despite these and other challenges, my colleagues and i have taken meaningful and historic steps to fulfill duties to the american people, to carry on the essential work like edward levi. this work will always be unfinished. i believe we can all be encouraged by the progress we've seen in the last two years. nowhere is this clearer than
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. >> there was a parallel knowledge economy. john bartram, as we'll see in a minute, was one of the leading suppliers. but the science was done in the mother country. so as i say, the career of john bartram really illustrates this phenomenon be, and it provides a breakthrough for what they later achieved. bartram was a taciturn farmer, as i mentioned, on a remote property outside philadelphia, and as he was drawn into the intellectual life of the junta, he eventually became quite a collector, he works for the swedish pot nist and even at one point for the british king. the london merchant and royal society member, peter coulson, served as bartram's main contact. at his direct, bartram traveled widely, often abandoning his farming duties to fulfill colson's endless request. i want to read briefly from a chapter devoted to john bartram. >> by all counts, par tram did well. on an expedition to the cedar swamp in new jersey to collect pine cones for the duke of norfolk, bartram struggled against the elements. he writed in his journa
. >> there was a parallel knowledge economy. john bartram, as we'll see in a minute, was one of the leading suppliers. but the science was done in the mother country. so as i say, the career of john bartram really illustrates this phenomenon be, and it provides a breakthrough for what they later achieved. bartram was a taciturn farmer, as i mentioned, on a remote property outside philadelphia, and as he was drawn into the intellectual life of the junta, he eventually became quite a...
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another temporary measure and you go through that exercise and that is wrenching to the economy. when you do a short-term measure of the budget the agencies really have to work at the lower level. they can't ascend that is going to be carrying it through for the year. for example on low income fuel assistance, direct consequences brought to bear. one individual who is depending on on the program but the agency couldn't run it at the higher amount so she could only get a small portion. it wasn't enough to fill her tank so you see it does have consequences the way in which they operate. >> host: that is why think your book does so well, talks about the importance of this process that people often ignore but it's so critical to problem solving. we are going to take a quick break and then we will come right back to discuss more of your book. >> when the attorney general arrange me in california after extradition he indicated that he wanted the death penalty on each of the three charges and he wanted the death penalty three times. that made me realize how serious they were. again it m
another temporary measure and you go through that exercise and that is wrenching to the economy. when you do a short-term measure of the budget the agencies really have to work at the lower level. they can't ascend that is going to be carrying it through for the year. for example on low income fuel assistance, direct consequences brought to bear. one individual who is depending on on the program but the agency couldn't run it at the higher amount so she could only get a small portion. it wasn't...
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california's economy was booming, and it was wonderful. frank was going to leave, and he said, feulner, why would you want to start a new one when you've been involved with heritage since the first day? why don't you just take over heritage from frank and instead of moving your family to new york and all the rest that's involved. so that's kind of how it evolved. i think linda was happy that we didn't have to move, although she is a new yorker natively, and she'll give me hell for telling this inside story right -- >> well, i think everybody here today is happy you made that decision. >> and here we are. >> stayed in washington d.c. [applause] >> the funny thing was, lee, and you recount this in the book, i know, anthony fisher's attorney was a very prominent new york attorney, 46th floor of the old pan am building, and his name was william j. casey. as in ronald reagan's head of the cia. and i'd actually gone up, met casey with anthony fisher, and can we were pretty close to signing on the dotted line. come five years later, six years lat
california's economy was booming, and it was wonderful. frank was going to leave, and he said, feulner, why would you want to start a new one when you've been involved with heritage since the first day? why don't you just take over heritage from frank and instead of moving your family to new york and all the rest that's involved. so that's kind of how it evolved. i think linda was happy that we didn't have to move, although she is a new yorker natively, and she'll give me hell for telling this...
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it says to improve the economy, we need to adapt. free-market policies. it's about 50 minutes. [applause] ..
it says to improve the economy, we need to adapt. free-market policies. it's about 50 minutes. [applause] ..
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so that is the origins of the economy. what really changed, major change was when the ford was finally closed in 1898 and when they discovered a different route into the mining districts which people didn't have to go. they were all rail lines. this little town was about to go under but nobody knew this. while all of this was going on there were federal surveys going on in the entire pacific northwest determining what is the marketable timber in this region? right behind me, i don't know if you can see it or not it is basically white pine, william -- millions of acres of white pine. a report was made from a survey in 1898. that report was made public and of course you can guess what happened then. all the major timber companies including the biggest warehouser was diamond international. they came to this area. so that is really what produced the town. when you walk through the town today that was the town that was primarily reduced. the town's population was about 500 in 1900. by 1910 it was almost 8000. coeur d' alene tod
so that is the origins of the economy. what really changed, major change was when the ford was finally closed in 1898 and when they discovered a different route into the mining districts which people didn't have to go. they were all rail lines. this little town was about to go under but nobody knew this. while all of this was going on there were federal surveys going on in the entire pacific northwest determining what is the marketable timber in this region? right behind me, i don't know if you...
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there was a parallel of knowledge economy in which science, raw materials, were provided by americans, john bartunek associate and it was one of the leading suppliers but they were not supposed to be science. the science was done in the mother country. as they say the career of john barger really illustrates a phenomenon. he was a farm smh on a remote property outside philadelphia. and as he was drawn into the intellectual life of the junto eventually became an active collector our behalf of the royal society in london. he worked for the swedish botanist and at one point he even for the british king. the london merchant and royal society member peter collison serve as the main contact. at his direction boardroom traveled widely abandon his farm and his recent time to fulfill the endless requests for more specimens. i want to read briefly from a chapter devoted to john bartram. by all accounts bar, bore up remarkable under these exacting demands ranging far and wide entering members hardships in the wilderness to fulfill his mission. on an expedition to the cedar swamp in new jersey, t
there was a parallel of knowledge economy in which science, raw materials, were provided by americans, john bartunek associate and it was one of the leading suppliers but they were not supposed to be science. the science was done in the mother country. as they say the career of john barger really illustrates a phenomenon. he was a farm smh on a remote property outside philadelphia. and as he was drawn into the intellectual life of the junto eventually became an active collector our behalf of...
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another the union army of the potomac to that they were all one on virginia soil id with the feeble economy but robert t. the new better than any other that the resources for too limited to keep offending of the confederacy enemy indefinitely only by carrying the war into the union states and by leveraging the of war weariness of the voting public with peace negotiations with the confederacy hope to win. but this was not a far fetched taupe and in the fall of 1862 dissension over abraham lincoln and its patients proclamation had caused unhappy voters in new york here new jersey to install democratic governors and a new round of anti-ward democratic candidates were due to run in the fall of the governors' elections in pennsylvania and if they would also turn against the war they could force it remington to begin peace talks or resign. so's the lee army 85,000 strong went north word in the first week of june crossing the potomac river and sweeping in a long arc of to the valley until the advance guard was perched on the susquehanna river overlooking the pennsylvania state capital of harrisbur
another the union army of the potomac to that they were all one on virginia soil id with the feeble economy but robert t. the new better than any other that the resources for too limited to keep offending of the confederacy enemy indefinitely only by carrying the war into the union states and by leveraging the of war weariness of the voting public with peace negotiations with the confederacy hope to win. but this was not a far fetched taupe and in the fall of 1862 dissension over abraham...
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if you didn't grow the government or economy at all. why have we put ourselves in a position? the fact is we are now, the federal reserve has increased its balance sheet. this created $2 trillion with the funny money. it is going to fall in the middle class in a very poor country and is going to defeat with both already said they want and yet we don't have the courage to do to make the tough choices if it means we lose their seats to secure the future for this country. we put ourselves first and said of the country first. if any american citizen breed back in black, go to her website every day, there's a lot of commonsense ways to save money. just this last week the air force announced in the federal government this year were going to
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i want to spend one more moment on prices because prices are the circulatory system of a real economy. and they're one of the things most misunderstood in health care, and it's a little wonky, but these things actually drive the way human beings receive service. one of the things we assume is that -- the question is how do we pay for health care? one of the arguments i'm making today is the how we pay drives the type of care we're getting. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here are some of the latest head ryanlines -- headlines surrounding the publishing industry the past week. a class action lawsuit has been filed against amazon and six other publishers, simon & schuster, random house, penguin, mcmillan and harpercollins. the booksellers filing the suit, fiction addiction of greenville, south carolina, bookhouse in albany, new york, and pozen books in the new york city, all claim that amazon and the major publishers have formed confidential agreements to monopolize print and e-book sales. the the suit will concentrate on digital rights management with
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in recent years the department has decided to a financial crisis developed our economy severely crippled. he contended his budgetary difficulties including sequestration an aside innovative ways to accomplish more with less. we witness our nation's most severe environmental catastrophe, the deepwater is a disaster and have taken action to hold accountable those responsible. alongside federal citizens have more the loss of innocent lives and unspeakable acts of violence in the boston marathon two weeks ago. on behalf of all who were killed, all who suffered injuries as a result of such senseless violence. and we pay tribute to far too many law enforcement heroes have an alignment duty in service to their country has made the ultimate sacrifice. my colleagues and i have taken meaningful and in many cases historic steps to fulfill her duties to the american people can carry on to work like every tv. this work will always be unfinished. i believe we can all be encouraged by the progress we've seen in momentum we built in just the last two years. nowhere is this clearer than the efforts of th
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like many veterans after the war he was on foot, often afterwards hard to integrate people into the economy. he ends up in st. louis greek becomes befriended by a major who becomes a senator from missouri this newspaper publisher. pulitzer enters the road. within five years of his dreamy night state companies elected state legislature to stare. it's that kind of speed of immigration 19th century when people would come in. to become successful in a really short in the story, in st. louis, inventing a new form of journalism. pulitzer is the modern-day surfer. if you go to a beach and look at on the water cannot be on with the waves are breaking the cnn in winning paddling was there for us, one of them paddles extraordinary speed and because they perceive the undulation is the best way the day. they don't see it. but pulitzer season-ending centura title rates of social change he was going to write pair but were they? they were becoming commuters. when they made important economic decisions in the farms were now becoming first ways. paper was being made with such strength that it would come and
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the business community, conservatives said this is a socialist and radical idea that will ruin the economy. so it was still considered a radical idea, but it was, nevertheless, now law. about a year go the poll was done of tea party members -- about 50 percent of all the tea party members that they polled said that congress and the business community should not mess with social security. it up the social security was sacrosanct. how did this idea of social security go from being a socialist radical idea hundred years ago to something that today even right wing tea party members feel is so embedded in our society as part of our mainstream that it should not be that does not mean there are not some conservative business people that want to reduce social security benefits, but almost all americans agree that social security is something that we need. so when i was in milwaukee, i thought, everyone in milwaukee will know who victor berger is because it was such a remarkable public figure. i asked people in the audience, are there any buildings in milwaukee named after victor berger? are there
the business community, conservatives said this is a socialist and radical idea that will ruin the economy. so it was still considered a radical idea, but it was, nevertheless, now law. about a year go the poll was done of tea party members -- about 50 percent of all the tea party members that they polled said that congress and the business community should not mess with social security. it up the social security was sacrosanct. how did this idea of social security go from being a socialist...
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this must have been 82 and the economy was suddenly starting to turn after a very bad first year. the first thing she said to the president was they don't call it reaganomics anymore. [laughter] we had moved to washington and we were going to buy a house. mortgage rates were up in the 20s or 19 to 21. we had just sold the house in syracuse at 5% and it was 7% when we left and expected to buy a home here at 19% and anyway it was unbelievable and the unemployment and the rest. you can go back and look at the facts. reagan used to call them misery facts. and you remember his slogan or his question at the debate with carter was are we better off? are you better off than you were four years ago? this was when he was getting elected against carter. okay there are 100 stories about that too that is what i liked about this, i came back to get my report to the president and we had a moment together. i said mr. president my wife thinks you are so gallant and i recall the story. you came over in took her by the arm and brought her over and seated her beside you and entertained her all evenin
this must have been 82 and the economy was suddenly starting to turn after a very bad first year. the first thing she said to the president was they don't call it reaganomics anymore. [laughter] we had moved to washington and we were going to buy a house. mortgage rates were up in the 20s or 19 to 21. we had just sold the house in syracuse at 5% and it was 7% when we left and expected to buy a home here at 19% and anyway it was unbelievable and the unemployment and the rest. you can go back and...
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to the benefit of the economy. >> host: what's the science behind the 4g being more efficient or better -- >> guest: oh, jeez. >> host: can you -- >> guest: i'm not sure doing. >> host: in a layman's way -- >> guest: i'm not sure in a layman's way you could answer that question. i should probably get some of our engineering personnel there. it's something called ofdm that just makes, you know, a much more efficient use of the frequencies. so there are plenty of people, you could go talk to qualcomm on the floor, and i'm sure they could tell you how it works. sorry. [laughter] >> host: okay. charla rath, what's the current status of the deal between verizon and the cable companies for verizon to buy some of their spectrum? >> guest: well, that, actually, that deal -- the spectrum portion of that deal closed last summer. we bought nearly nationwide spectrum from spectrum co. for close to $4 billion. it's about 20 megahertz nationwide. and that, actually, closed and, you know, we're expecting that sometime i think probably sometime this year we'll be, you know, this year, maybe early next
to the benefit of the economy. >> host: what's the science behind the 4g being more efficient or better -- >> guest: oh, jeez. >> host: can you -- >> guest: i'm not sure doing. >> host: in a layman's way -- >> guest: i'm not sure in a layman's way you could answer that question. i should probably get some of our engineering personnel there. it's something called ofdm that just makes, you know, a much more efficient use of the frequencies. so there are plenty...
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not to be angry at bill clinton over the monica lewinsky thing, but on one level you could say the economy's booming, we're at peace, you know? fantastic things are happening. and we're angry because a president received consensual favors from a young woman. well, here's your news flash, right? read the book. whereas in france, you know, the joke is they wouldn't elect a leader or who didn't have multiple mistresses. [laughter] i don't want a gelding in this race, right? i want a bull in this race kind of a thing. what we see is americans tend to have, i guess, a bit more of a prudish view towards sexual affairs than folks around the world. and at the end of the book, i think in the last chapter, i offer some comparison that this thing happens all around the world, but we in the united states tend to be a little more infatuated. is it because of our freedoms? is it because we don't have a royal family that we can, you know, be fascinated with? is it because of reality tv? is it because of declining standards? i don't know what it is. but, france has had a number of leaders with multiple mist
not to be angry at bill clinton over the monica lewinsky thing, but on one level you could say the economy's booming, we're at peace, you know? fantastic things are happening. and we're angry because a president received consensual favors from a young woman. well, here's your news flash, right? read the book. whereas in france, you know, the joke is they wouldn't elect a leader or who didn't have multiple mistresses. [laughter] i don't want a gelding in this race, right? i want a bull in this...
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he had been economies organized an actor in los angeles. he was kicked out of the commonest party because they were homophobic, too, and he became the leader of the very small and quite secretive gay-rights movement. how did he come out -- how did he come to be this heroic figure? although people don't know about them. in 1948, when he was still in the communist party, harry hay wanted to organize homosexuals to support henry wallace who was running for president on the third parties to get their candy balls have been the vice president of the united states under fdr. even kicked off the ticket in 1944 for being too radical. harry truman became the vice president a year later fdr died. had just written an article which will be published next sunday, but what would america have been like if henry wallace had stayed on the ticket, and when fdr died he became the president? he was the guy who believed and racial integration back in 1948. racial integration, strong labor unions, universal health insurance, women's rights, and end of the cold wa
he had been economies organized an actor in los angeles. he was kicked out of the commonest party because they were homophobic, too, and he became the leader of the very small and quite secretive gay-rights movement. how did he come out -- how did he come to be this heroic figure? although people don't know about them. in 1948, when he was still in the communist party, harry hay wanted to organize homosexuals to support henry wallace who was running for president on the third parties to get...
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union army of the potomac but the victories were all won on virginia soil land in feeble the virginia economy even as they defended its. lee knew better than any southerner that the confederacy's resources were too limited to keep fending off a confederacy's enemies in definitely. only by carrying the war into the union states and only by leveraging the war weariness of the union voting public into a peace negotiations could the confederacy hoped to win. it is not far-fetched hope. in fall of 1862 dissension over abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation cost unhappy voters in new york and new jersey to install democratic governors there. a new round of anti-war democratic candidates were due to run in the fall of 1863 governor's elections in ohio and pennsylvania. of those states also turned against blow work they could force abraham lincoln to begin peace talks or to resign so we's army, some 85,000 strong struck north in the first week of june crossing the potomac river and sweeping in a long arc of the cumberland valley until this advanced guard was perched on the susquehanna river over
union army of the potomac but the victories were all won on virginia soil land in feeble the virginia economy even as they defended its. lee knew better than any southerner that the confederacy's resources were too limited to keep fending off a confederacy's enemies in definitely. only by carrying the war into the union states and only by leveraging the war weariness of the union voting public into a peace negotiations could the confederacy hoped to win. it is not far-fetched hope. in fall of...
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so if you're in economies country you don't even have to know the lyrics to get the message that rock 'n roll is about freedom. >> this song is that young people living in the northeast. >> lives are miserable because steel factories are closing. >> there are countless stories. billy joel told me when he played russia, i said, did they send you in any way? no. they let me play whatever i wanted. now realize this is the first american musician to play russian since 1964 but quite another. he said, they let me play whatever i wanted but they said whatever you do, did not have the kids come to the front of the auditorium. ♪ ♪ >> they were very much indeed sitting in their seats. and he said that the police did not have fire arms, that they had tranquilizer darts and tranquilizer guns. they were afraid the kids would go nuts. so billy joel said you know what happened to? you call them down to the front immediately. he said yeah, they all came down. the soldiers were throwing their hats in the air. so i thought that was cool. >> what's the biggest mistake ronald reagan made? >> his big
so if you're in economies country you don't even have to know the lyrics to get the message that rock 'n roll is about freedom. >> this song is that young people living in the northeast. >> lives are miserable because steel factories are closing. >> there are countless stories. billy joel told me when he played russia, i said, did they send you in any way? no. they let me play whatever i wanted. now realize this is the first american musician to play russian since 1964 but...
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economy. we are in a recovery but the declining middle class is a huge trend in that plays a role here. the middle class is the engine that grew the suburbs and so again now that is going to show up in our housing market and in the way that we have arranged their landscape for the future. you don't want to be negative and say maybe there isn't an american dream anymore because we don't have any hope. i don't believe that but it certainly doesn't hold a place in. >> host: i don't believe that either but a lot of young people feel their prospects are on the decline. we will see. the book reads very well. so blithely. tell us what you enjoyed writing about it. but if you like the most? >> guest: i really liked talking to people and hearing baruch's branches in the suburbs. i liked building my own experience into it and i like tracing the narrative of our country through the suburbs which it's just tells the story naturally. i like that and the individual people i talk to and hearing the crazy sto
economy. we are in a recovery but the declining middle class is a huge trend in that plays a role here. the middle class is the engine that grew the suburbs and so again now that is going to show up in our housing market and in the way that we have arranged their landscape for the future. you don't want to be negative and say maybe there isn't an american dream anymore because we don't have any hope. i don't believe that but it certainly doesn't hold a place in. >> host: i don't believe...
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it's not about the economy working well. you know, sometimes than the great depression the homicide rate goes down. in the 1960s that goes to. we look at religion. we are the most churchgoing people of any affluent nation amid the highest percentage of people who believe in god. so we kill each other. how can that be? so our faith doesn't even -- are extraordinary faith doesn't solve this problem. if you think the people who are doing the murders don't regard themselves as god, most of them do. there are contouring people who think that person deserves to die. he'll even read in the smarter things, god told me he got what he deserved. that doesn't work because when you have that angry bear, people use their religion the wrong way. and so, i think we have to get away from the idea that her ideologies are going to have the answer to the homicide problem among adults. we've got to look elsewhere and that's what we're trying to do. >> next county where first edition of the rare life of billy the kid published in 1882 and signed
it's not about the economy working well. you know, sometimes than the great depression the homicide rate goes down. in the 1960s that goes to. we look at religion. we are the most churchgoing people of any affluent nation amid the highest percentage of people who believe in god. so we kill each other. how can that be? so our faith doesn't even -- are extraordinary faith doesn't solve this problem. if you think the people who are doing the murders don't regard themselves as god, most of them do....
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and in feeble, the virginia economy even as they defended it. lee knew better than any southerner that the confederacy's resources were too limited to keep fending off the confederacies enemies indefinitely. only by carrying the war into the union states, and only by leveraging the war-weariness of the union voting public into peace negotiations could the confederacy hope to win. but this was by no means a farfetched hope. in the fall of 1862 dissension over president abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation caused unhappy voters in new york and new jersey to install democratic governors there. a new round of antiwar, democratic candidates, were due to run in the fall of 1863 governors elections in ohio and pennsylvania. if those states also turned against the war, they could force abraham lincoln either to begin peace talks or to resign. so lee's army, some 85,000 strong, struck northward in the first week of june, crossing the potomac river, and sweeping in a long arc up the cumberland valley, until his advance guard was perched on the susq
and in feeble, the virginia economy even as they defended it. lee knew better than any southerner that the confederacy's resources were too limited to keep fending off the confederacies enemies indefinitely. only by carrying the war into the union states, and only by leveraging the war-weariness of the union voting public into peace negotiations could the confederacy hope to win. but this was by no means a farfetched hope. in the fall of 1862 dissension over president abraham lincoln's...
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history everyone thought the gap was closing because of the iranian hostage crisis based on the economy he was well ahead so in the last election in cycle people were saying mitt romney he just has to campaign on a bad economy just point to barack obama to say he is bad economics. no. everybody it still has a job so for the most part they don't hurt democrats but help them what plagues them is lack of the enemy that before the soviet union it was the glue is what stuck together what the fiscal conservatism opposition to the soviet union once they felt there was no existential threat than the three lakes and started to bicker a little bit but the soviet union was never the overarching threat it was always from the tyrannical bright in takeover the country but now you see that the was promulgated throughout the reagan years as well that is why they adapted so easily because now it doesn't have the enemy we will protect you but the enemy is conservatives they will not protect you from those dastardly conservatives to remove your ability to go all the you have the greatest black turnout or
history everyone thought the gap was closing because of the iranian hostage crisis based on the economy he was well ahead so in the last election in cycle people were saying mitt romney he just has to campaign on a bad economy just point to barack obama to say he is bad economics. no. everybody it still has a job so for the most part they don't hurt democrats but help them what plagues them is lack of the enemy that before the soviet union it was the glue is what stuck together what the fiscal...
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we are trying to gin up the economy here. it's easy to tell the story about the farmer great it is hard to explain why we are all suffering a little bit. >> hello, i am spencer. you touched on the abortion issue and i think that there has been a point in that debate where we have seen some of the atrocities in philadelphia and even young people where the tide is turning and the pro-life position is coming back after being down in the low popularity area. my question is what do you think will be the corresponding point. incest, open marriages, temporary marriage, i mean, what is going to do? what is the point where the tide turns? >> that is a great question. i think there are a couple of possible things. one is that the sonogram has clearly helped. you can actually see the heart beating and it stops. it is no longer a clump of cells. it's a human being. so what is the equivalent of the sonogram. i think there is a potential for social science to do this. we have some luminary information and it's not as good as growing up wit
we are trying to gin up the economy here. it's easy to tell the story about the farmer great it is hard to explain why we are all suffering a little bit. >> hello, i am spencer. you touched on the abortion issue and i think that there has been a point in that debate where we have seen some of the atrocities in philadelphia and even young people where the tide is turning and the pro-life position is coming back after being down in the low popularity area. my question is what do you think...